New Catching Fire Trailer and Posters

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Of all the books, Catching Fire is my favorite, so I'm almost vibrating with excitement over the release of a new trailer yesterday at San Diego Comic Con, and the chance to see our named victors in their arena costumes.

Some thoughts I had watching the new trailer:

* The Victor's Village is smaller than I expected, and the houses are much grander than I imagined. Kind of a McMansion development that didn't think hard enough about green space. So, from that perspective, it probably is the Village the Capitol would build.

* The scenes of the Hob burning are very dramatic! What's just an off-screen moment in the book is going to be a very dramatic sequence. I love that the film adaptation gives us the chance to see things outside of Katniss's perspective, and I'm really looking forward to more of these moments.

* That shot of the crowd surging forward during the tour (at 0:53)... is that District 3? Oh, please, let it be so! (Alternately, I'm guessing it's District 5, which I would also not mind seeing.)

* Is it just my imagination, or do the shots of the Capitol look bigger and broader than those used in The Hunger Games? I don't expect Catching Fire has a substantially bigger budget (I think Lionsgate expected THG to be a hit and funded accordingly), so I'm not sure why that would be.

* The look between Effie and Katniss at 1:16 is exquisite.

* OMG, the interview set! Am I the only one tortured by the fact that all the victors are there, but the screen size/resolution is too small to get real detail? (Why does District 6 look like they've escaped from the Matrix?)

* The actresses playing Enobaria and Johanna look fantastic. Not quite what I imagined (I pictured Enobaria with darker skin and a buzzcut), but true threats.

* Following Katniss's lift out of the stockyard into the arena could not be more breathtaking.

The victor posters were originally distributed separately to various websites, but Empire Online has posted all of them. The casting of District 3 is particularly important to me (headcanon, I haz it). I am really pleased with the choice of accomplished character actors Amanda Plummer and Jeffrey Wright as Wiress and Beetee. Plummer seems especially right to me, given the niche she's carved out for herself playing the tiny, soft-spoken women with the crazy eyes (if you have the opportunity, check out her Emmy-winning guest shot on The Outer Limits, "A Stitch in Time").

Comments

[lorata.livejournal.com]

hahaha I laughed so hard at D6's outfits, especially given that they're morphlings who just run around going wheeeeeeeeeee hiiiiiii preeeeeeeeetty and they're standing there all badass. XD

NO YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO WAS TORTURED BY THE VICTOR SHOT though I managed to zoom in and laughed myself to death at Brutus wearing the same belly shirt as Enobaria. Like. Well done gender parity I guess?

Katniss' house is pretty much exactly how I saw it, since the book mentions all her servants and I was like SERVANTS??! so man idk.

(omg I didn't know you had D3 headcanon GIVE IT TO MEEEEEEEEEEE)

(also hi hi I added you to general filters but if you want in on the Avenger Games AU filter lemme know)

[kawuli.livejournal.com]

AH! I LOVE ALL OF THIS

Comments on random bits and pieces of things:

The D3 class divide is really interesting especially if you think about the fact that you would have the equivalents of both Apple and Foxconn in the same district (which I hadn't really thought through until just now). And especially if it's based on testing from childhood it could definitely really break up families, yikes!

a larger proportion of the demand is for relatively small batch orders of complex items for Capitol citizens or specific industries, rather than mass-manufacture items (as there are so few in the districts who can afford a lot of technology, and many of the district industries don't require it)
Yes, I was thinking about this to in terms of 6 (of course) because they’d be producing for the Capitol and the Peacekeepers and a few rich people and not for the general public, so much lower volume than say Detroit at peak production.

I also imagine that the Capitol maintains a rather tight control on ownership of the science and technology firms, through either nationalization of certain industries or prohibiting ownership of R/D or manufacturing firms by non-Capitol citizens, etc
Yes I think anyone having any kind of business (from the bakery on up) has to be licensed by the Capitol and the more potentially threatening the business the more closely that's monitored.

Like other totalitarian states, Panem is sacrificing the economic growth (and the prosperity and human flourishing that accompany that growth) and engaging in debilitating levels of social control in order to maintain a power order.
YES EXACTLY. When I'm thinking "How might X work in Panem" I think about, in priority order: control, efficient use of (presumably scarer-than-currently) resources, then productivity. Control is the only way you can explain splitting off various industries geographically (especially power generation holy transmission losses, that basically cannot actually be the only place that generates power).

Wiress loves to take someone’s camcorder when they’re not looking and film weird bits (making faces, singing songs, etc), just to watch their reaction when their notes are interrupted with something ridiculous.

like the surprise cake they baked to present his mentor on her 70th birthday, the time Beetee accidentally set his labcoat on fire (which, of course, was only funny for him in retrospect, when he could hear Wiress’s color commentary pompously regurgitating the standard National Science Acadmey speech about ‘the duty of the superior alpha class to use their gifts for the glory of Panem’), or the time his mentor fell asleep over an experiment and the other victors gleefully decorated her with toilet paper, spare wire and a string of LEDs.
My favorite thing is nerdy prank stories (probably has something to do with going to engineering school and participating in nerdy pranks) and I WANT MORE OF THIS PLS

if wanting my coerced and damaged child killers to be one big happy family is wrong, then I don’t wanna be right.
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